diff --git a/src/Html2Text.php b/src/Html2Text.php
index 0dfb8d4..5ead1ff 100644
--- a/src/Html2Text.php
+++ b/src/Html2Text.php
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ class Html2Text
         '/(<tr[^>]*>|<\/tr>)/i',                          // <tr> and </tr>
         '/<td[^>]*>(.*?)<\/td>/i',                        // <td> and </td>
         '/<span class="_html2text_ignore">.+?<\/span>/i', // <span class="_html2text_ignore">...</span>
+        '/<(img)[^>]*alt=\"([^>"]+)\"[^>]*>/i',           // <img> with alt tag
     );
 
     /**
@@ -97,7 +98,8 @@ class Html2Text
         "\n\n",                          // <table> and </table>
         "\n",                            // <tr> and </tr>
         "\t\t\\1\n",                     // <td> and </td>
-        ""                               // <span class="_html2text_ignore">...</span>
+        "",                              // <span class="_html2text_ignore">...</span>
+        '[\\2]',                         // <img> with alt tag
     );
 
     /**
diff --git a/test/ImageTest.php b/test/ImageTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..04a3aa6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/ImageTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Html2Text;
+
+class ImageTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
+{
+    public function testImageDataProvider() {
+        return array(
+            'Without alt tag' => array(
+                'html' => '<img src="http://example.com/example.jpg">',
+                'expected'  => '',
+            ),
+            'Without alt tag, wrapped in text' => array(
+                'html' => 'xx<img src="http://example.com/example.jpg">xx',
+                'expected'  => 'xxxx',
+            ),
+            'With alt tag' => array(
+                'html' => '<img src="http://example.com/example.jpg" alt="An example image">',
+                'expected'  => '[An example image]',
+            ),
+            'With alt, and title tags' => array(
+                'html' => '<img src="http://example.com/example.jpg" alt="An example image" title="Should be ignored">',
+                'expected'  => '[An example image]',
+            ),
+            'With alt tag, wrapped in text' => array(
+                'html' => 'xx<img src="http://example.com/example.jpg" alt="An example image">xx',
+                'expected'  => 'xx[An example image]xx',
+            ),
+        );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @dataProvider testImageDataProvider
+     */
+    public function testImages($html, $expected)
+    {
+        $html2text = new Html2Text($html);
+        $output = $html2text->getText();
+
+        $this->assertEquals($expected, $output);
+    }
+}